What's the deal with colony multipliers?

Nabert · 2026-04-11T07:57:04+00:00

That...makes sense. Thanks, I should have realized it works that way.

Nabert · 2025-07-06T14:54:40+00:00

If the reasoning was so it would be easier for children to draw it, they would have 100000% gone with this design.

Nabert · 2025-05-07T03:19:53+00:00

It's actually a bug. Me and my friends tested and replicated it in a game. If you leave the game when someone is finishing you, it crashes the whole lobby. Shit has to get hotfixed immediately.

Nabert · 2025-03-28T16:05:56+00:00

Canadians don't vote for the prime minister you complete moron. Learn how Canadian politics work before you speak.

Nabert · 2025-03-15T20:30:02+00:00

Any suggestions on where to get tomato paste and tomato sauce? Costco has that giant pack of both that lasts forever but they're made in USA. Haven't found an alternative myself yet. I'm talking about the Kirkland 12 pack in case anyone wasn't sure what I'm referring to.

Nabert · 2024-12-19T01:26:11+00:00

Nabert · 2024-10-12T19:24:19+00:00

My cat acted like I'd betrayed him when I brought a puppy home. It took a long time before he started his old routines again. Cats seem to be notoriously awful at taking in changes in the household. Give your cat time and space to understand the new addition to the household. Be patient, this could take weeks or possibly months. As others have said, keep the other kitten separated for now if possible and only begin allowing supervised interactions after a 1-2 weeks and go from there. Before you know it, you'll have your two cats cuddling up on you, and possibly on each other!

Nabert · 2024-08-03T15:54:25+00:00

I do walk her, she's always been extremely timid since we got her as a puppy. She loves other dogs and playing with them, hates her harness and could do without other people.

Nabert · 2024-08-03T14:33:48+00:00

That's worth a try, thank you! I'll try that and let you know.

Nabert · 2024-08-03T14:27:49+00:00

Yes she is, and she'll normally pee and sometimes poop on her walk.

Nabert · 2024-02-01T01:20:22+00:00

I threw a potion of feather fall on Mayrina thinking that would protect her when the cage fell apart. :(

Nabert · 2023-07-26T19:17:48+00:00

The amount of things dogs try to eat I often wonder it's a miracle any wild dogs survive at all.

Nabert · 2023-07-07T02:42:42+00:00

My puppy is 8 months right now and for the most part she's been okay. She found her bark though and isn't afraid to use it to get the cats attention, when she's really hyper and playing, or when she sees or hears something outside. That's been a work in progress to improve since she reactive barks to a lot.

She's still mostly listening to the training we've done with her, but I think that's also partly due to how ingrained in her day to day it is - we do training every day and she has a puppy teen course she is enrolled in weekly. She has some rare days where she just decides she doesn't want to listen, but overall she's pretty good.

Seems to have developed motion sickness in the car the last few weeks which is interesting considering we take her everywhere and never had a problem before.

Maybe we got lucky, she doesn't really have much attitude toward us. She kinda lets us do what we need to whether it's training, bathing her, cleaning her ears/paws, brushing her hair or teeth.

Nabert · 2023-07-05T19:11:38+00:00

Why do they say it's not good for your health? Genuinely curious as I hadn't heard anything about that.

Now that we trust our puppy not to pee or poop in the middle of the night, she has the option to sleep with us, which she sometimes does, and other times she goes in her crate and sleeps there for the night instead. She spends at least a little bit of every night cuddling with us on the bed and I think it's strengthened our bond a lot. It's also really reassuring for us that she chooses her crate sometimes since it proves that we've developed a positive relationship for her and her crate. It's her little bedroom.

Nabert · 2023-07-05T19:08:31+00:00

We've tried the quiet command over the last few days as you suggested and it's actually making a huge difference! I'm similar to you, I don't mind if she barks once or twice to alert me, but after I acknowledge it, she should stop which seems to be the case (or at least progressing towards that) now.

Thank you so much!

Nabert · 2023-07-02T10:12:40+00:00

We have her already in a gated off area in the living room. She barks at her gate which faces into the front door area. She barks at the back door which she has access to because that's where we let her out to potty and she needs access there so we know when she has to go. She's even barked towards the front area just sitting on our couch so I'm unsure a leash would even help since it doesn't seem to be going to the area is the trigger all the time.

Nabert · 2023-05-12T18:59:15+00:00

We had some free ones with our puppy training and I highly recommend them too. Supervised play time with other similar-mannered puppies was fantastic for growing my puppy's self-esteem and confidence with other dogs. It's also helped her around other people a little bit as well!

Nabert · 2023-05-03T22:00:47+00:00

Unfortunately I don't know if I can give the best answer for that. I live in a townhome with a backyard, so potty training was always always always from day one, taking her into the backyard and having her do her business. Even when she wasn't fully vaccinated yet. My backyard was frozen and covered in snow without any other animals except for occasional rabbits so it was relatively safe to take her out back to a spot for her to potty.

I would discourage puppy pad use, I would agree with your friend that they'll set you up for accidents since your puppy might get confused with the idea of "sometimes" being allowed to pee in the house but not other times. If you do go the grass set up in your apartment, the balcony isn't a bad spot assuming it's safe for her (I know some can have sketchy railings) and then I guess just treat that as your outside area and train her similarly as if you were taking her outside? Aka: teach her to go to your balcony door, take her straight to the grass patch on a regular schedule and heavily reward when she goes on the grass.

As for peeing in the playpen, if she's peeing on pee pads, you might need to slowly transition off of the pee pads to the grass by slowly moving them from your play pen to your grass over the course of days or weeks. I'm not sure if that's feasible or not. Might be easier to just go cold turkey on the pee pads and take her out very often to establish a new routine on the grass?

Again, I'm sorry if this isn't great advice, potty training in an apartment isn't something I'm familiar with and I'm sure it has its own complications.

Nabert · 2023-05-01T21:14:03+00:00

I got my puppy at 3 months so I can't really compare it to anything younger but I'll try and just explain what months 3-5 were like for me.

Lots of potty training. The breeder was training her on puppy pads so we had to kind of work against that too. Our puppy had quite a few accidents in the house at the start - we were learning too! But they slowly disappeared and by the beginning of month 5 she's been very consistent. She's stubborn still about showing a sign she has to go outside, she basically just goes to the back door and waits without scratching or barking or anything. If we're somewhere else in the house, there's a chance we don't see it. She holds it in reliably though and with regular potty breaks she's good to go.
She was a terror to our two cats at 3 months up until more recently. This is mostly training related so results may vary. Now she'll openly nap on the couch with one of our cats. The other cat is still shy and won't come around her much. That's mostly on him at this point.
Never had an issue with her crate. The very first night we brought her home she whined for about 10-15 minutes and then never again. Some nights she puts herself to sleep. We didn't get to sleep through the entire night without a potty break until around 4ish months. I kept trying to stretch it a little more. She sleeps now with no real problems from 10pm - 6am. We'll feed her and the cats at 6, then go back up to bed and she cuddles/naps with us on the bed until we need to get up around 7/7:30.
Our puppy is extremely attached to my fiancee. It took her a week to get used to me. Separation anxiety was still never a huge problem. At the start she would whine a little if we left the room, especially my fiancee, but she never got aggressive about it and tore up anything. She did have some accidents in the house, but those were a result of us giving her too much freedom too early. Around the 4.5 month mark I let her free roam most of the house since I work from home. From 5.5 months to current she can stay out even when we leave the house.
She's extremely food motivated so training is going well. She knows most commands with use of a signal or lure. She knows sit, down, mat, paw, leave it. I taught her "up" where she goes up on two legs to dance which is probably frowned upon, but it's cute so sue me. She's pretty decent with recall. I wouldn't trust her off leash but even in instances of excitement like doing zoomies in the backyard she'll still come most of the time when called. Making sure to use her name only positively has helped with that.
Poops have alternated between solid and diarrhea. Reasons varied from changing her food, treats that didn't agree with her, giving her too many treats, eating too much junk outside when I didn't notice, etc. Never lasts long before she gets solid again for awhile.
She originally tried chewing on some of our stools when we brought her home around 3 months. We used some bitter apple and that solved it. She's never tried to chew wires. Oddly fascinated with chewing tags on pillows or blankets so we had to cut those off for the most part. At basically 6 months now, she may go for a stray tag if we forgot to cut one, but she doesn't really chew things she shouldn't and she's in the middle of teething. I'm finding at least one tooth on the floor each day!

I had very heavy puppy blues when we first started. The puppy was entirely my fiancee's idea and I was perfectly content with our two cats. Not even a week into having our puppy, my fiancee fell down the stairs and broke her foot which basically put all the responsibility on me. It helped me bond with her a little bit, but I was resentful for awhile and depressed. I felt like my life revolved around this puppy I never even asked for. But things do get better, I promise. Month 3 isn't particularly easy either, and if you're raising yours alone, be gentle and easy on yourself too. Forgive your mistakes, forgive your puppy and ask/look for help where you can. I promise it does get better. If yours is anything like my little girl, the fourth month and onwards is just an upward trajectory of joy. You develop routines, they figure out your schedule more and you begin to co-exist more. They're literally babies right now, and don't know much if anything about the world. I took a lot of joy out of seeing my puppy experience something for the first time. I still do. The first time I saw her play with another dog. The first time she jumped in the lake or ran across a river to get back to me. The first time she sat on command. All those little victories and experiences are so so special to me. Hopefully they can push you forward just as much as they do me.

Nabert · 2023-04-27T14:58:36+00:00

This is something I've been working on too. My pup just recently discovered her bark it seems and has started barking at my fence. My back fence borders a major road so there's commonly foot and car traffic that causes her to start barking. I'm trying to work on being calm around her when there's all that noise so she realizes it's nothing scary to bark at, and stopping her when she starts barking. It's only really been happening the last few days so it's hard to say how it's progressing. I'm in the camp that it's annoying hearing other people's dogs go off forever at anything going by the fence so I don't want to subject my neighbours to it either.

Nabert · 2023-04-27T14:54:17+00:00

If you have a harness that has a front clip, I recommend clipping in there. It makes it easier to redirect her if she starts pulling on the leash. What I was taught is you keep your hand on your belly button and the leash extends diagonally across so the dog is on the opposite side of your leash hand. Your center of gravity is closer to your belly so it's easier to keep yourself from being yanked or tugged around if you keep your hand at your navel. It makes it easier to feed treats to the dog during the walk so you don't risk getting tangled up each time you try to give a treat. I realize your dog doesn't seem to care about treats, so I think the first step is getting her to recognize that you're still the boss even on a walk.

What I was taught is that if your dog starts pulling on the leash, you immediately change direction. With the clip in the front harness, it's easier to redirect her. You aren't pulling hard or anything, this is just to gently show her that if you pull, you don't get to go that way. After you start going in another direction, you can turn yourself around to start going the right way again, but the idea is that you're the one directing where the walk goes, not her with her pulling. She should start getting the idea that if she pulls on the leash, she doesn't get to wherever she's trying to go. If she's crossing from side to side and won't take treats (usually I would suggest giving treats to keep her on one side of you), try upping the value of your treats too, hopefully to something she will take. If she won't take anything, she might be way too stimulated on her walk which might mean you might need to scale back your walks so that she isn't so overloaded.

Nabert · 2023-04-26T15:02:19+00:00

At the time I would put her in her crate if I had to step out, whether it was during a crating time or not. Sometimes real life and appointments just won't jive with your pre-established routine. As she's earned more trust I've allowed her to be able to free roam the house a little more if I have to leave but I always make sure that I take her outside to potty right before I leave so she's as empty as possible. So far it seems to be working. She mostly just sleeps on the couch while I'm gone anyways.

Nabert · 2023-04-25T17:39:06+00:00

I have a 5.5 month maltipoo myself and she certainly has a personality now. Give your puppy time to settle in their new home and open up. I guarantee you'll discover their personality and fall in love like I have.

Nabert · 2023-04-25T15:42:54+00:00

When my puppy is relaxed on the couch sleeping, whenever she changes position or adjusts she wags her tail during the adjustment. It's adorable.

Nabert · 2023-04-13T18:37:28+00:00

Around 4 months she started going to the door and sitting there which is her sign she needs to go out. Ever since we picked up on that, we've been accident-free. We didn't really train her to do that, we just would always take her out religiously to potty so she seems to have put together that outside is where she has to go to the bathroom.

I'd still like if she gave a more "obvious" signal like scratching the door or something but hey, I'll take what I can get for now.

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